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Between 1967 and 1974, a bilateral treaty increased circular labor migration from Malawi to South Africa by 200%, bringing over 53 million USD in earnings into origin communities. A deadly migrant worker plane crash in 1974 ended these flows and led to migrant repatriation. We study how this...
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employment-population ratio of natives to test for crowding out at the national level. Third, we analyze occupational upgrading … calculate a positive employment rate effect for most native workers. Even simulations for the most recent 2019-2022 period … suggest small positive effects on wages of non-college natives and no significant crowding out effects on employment …
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We characterize the contribution of immigrants to US innovation, both through their direct productivity as well as … Number is assigned. We find immigrants represent 16 percent of all US inventors, but produced 23 percent of total innovation … premature inventor deaths, we find that immigrant inventors create especially strong positive externalities on the innovation …
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Using a human capital based growth model, we show the essential role of labor mobility and cross-country tax harmonization in equalizing income levels of countries that start off from different initial income positions. Knowledge spillovers cum labor mobility are the driving forces behind the...
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local labor markets over time, we establish a new fact. Even though both shocks drastically reduced employment in the … manufacturing sector, only robots led to a sizable decline in population size. We provide evidence that negative employment …
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